Seeing Things: Virtual Aesthetics in Victorian Culture

＂This book tells the story of how Victorians experienced the virtual images created by modern optical media. It argues that the period of 1830-1900 saw the emergence of virtual aesthetics: an aesthetics of visual and perceptual encounters with things that were not really there＂-- Provided by publisher.

Amanda Shubert is Teaching Faculty in English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.